Exploration and Discovery, 1576-1939 The Library of Franklin Brooke-Hitching Part 4, Q-Z

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Lot 1300
  • 1300

Ussher, John

Estimate
800 - 1,200 GBP
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Description

  • A Journey from London to Persepolis; including wanderings in Daghestan, Georgia, Armenia, Kurdistan, Mesopotamia, and Persia. London: Hurst and Blackett, 1865
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FIRST EDITION, 8vo (250 x 153mm.), xiv, [ii], 704pp., [xii pp. adverts], 18 coloured plates, original pictorial and blind-stamped blue pebble-grained cloth, brown endpapers, slipcase, slight dampstain to plates, spine slightly soiled

Literature

Ghani p.379; Wilson p.233

Catalogue Note

An account of travels through Russian Daghestan at the time of the Shami uprising, and thence south to view the antiquities of Mesopotamia and Persia.